This virtual special issue presents a collection of papers examining how asymmetries of knowledge and epistemic stance-taking influence turn design in communities in Australia, Tanzania, Mexico and Ecuador. In all cases the communities in focus are ones where it can be assumed that among adult members at least, there is a significant amount of overlapping shared knowledge – what we call ‘small communities’. This issue thus presents a new contribution to a longstanding focus in pragmatics research on how conversational participants take into account not only what they know and what they assume others to know, but also what knowledge they have the rights and responsibility to talk about in designing the production of turns of talk.

本期虚拟特刊展示了一系列论文，研究了澳大利亚、坦桑尼亚、墨西哥和厄瓜多尔社区的知识不对称和认知立场采取如何影响设计。在所有情况下，关注的社区都是可以假设至少在成年成员中存在大量重叠共享知识的社区——我们称之为“小社区”。因此，这个问题对语用学研究的长期焦点提出了新的贡献，即会话参与者如何不仅考虑他们知道什么和他们假设别人知道什么，而且考虑到他们在设计会话时有权利和责任谈论什么知识。谈话的产生。